# armadillo
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish armadillo, diminutive of armado (“armored”), in reference to its protective plates.

### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ɑɹməˈdɪloʊ/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɑːməˈdɪləʊ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪləʊ
* Hyphenation: ar‧ma‧dil‧lo

### Noun

armadillo (plural armadillos or armadilloes)
* Any of the burrowing mammals covered with bony, jointed, protective plates, order Cingulata, found in the Americas, especially in South America.
** 2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32:The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters …. But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna.

#### Synonyms

* quirquincho (archaic)

#### Derived terms

* (order Cingulata): Andean hairy armadillo (Chaetophractus nationi), beautiful armadillo (†Dasypus bellus), big hairy armadillo (Chaetophractus villosus), Chacoan naked-tailed armadillo (Cabassous chacoensis), dwarf armadillo (Zaedyus pichiy), giant armadillo (Priodontes maximus), great long-nosed armadillo (Dasypus kappleri), greater fairy armadillo, greater naked-tailed armadillo, hairy armadillo (Chaetophractus spp.), hairy long-nosed armadillo (Dasypus pilosus), horned armadillo (†Peltephilus), Llanos long-nosed armadillo, long-nosed armadillo (Dasypus spp.), naked-tailed armadillo (Cabassous spp.), nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus), northern horned armadillo, northern three-banded armadillo, pink fairy armadillo (Chlamyphorus truncatus), pygmy armadillo (Zaedyus pichiy), screaming hairy armadillo (Chaetophractus vellerosus), seven-banded armadillo (Dasypus septemcinctus), six-banded armadillo (Euphractus sexcinctus), southern long-nosed armadillo, southern naked-tailed armadillo (Dasypus hybridus), southern three-banded armadillo, Texas armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus), three-banded armadillo (Tolypeutes matacus or Tolypeutes tricinctus), six-banded armadillo (Euphractus sexcinctus)
* mule armadillo
* armadillo ant
* armadillo bug (in order Oniscidea)
* armadillo egg

#### Related terms

* armor

#### Translations
### See also

* scute
* Xenarthra

### Further reading

* armadillo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish armadillo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ər.məˈði.ʎu]
* IPA: (Balearic) [ər.məˈði.ʎo]
* IPA: (Valencia) [aɾ.maˈði.ʎo]

### Noun

armadillo m (plural armadillos)
* armadillo

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish armadillo.

### Noun

armadillo m (plural armadilli)
* armadillo

## Malay
### Etymology

Borrowed from English armadillo, from Spanish armadillo, diminutive of armado (“armored”), in reference to its protective plates.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /a(r)madilo/
* Rhymes: -ilo, -lo, -o

### Noun

armadillo
* armadillo

## Spanish
### Etymology

From armado (“armored”) +‎ -illo (“diminutive”), i.e. "little armored one".

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aɾmaˈdiʝo/ [aɾ.maˈð̞i.ʝo]
* IPA: (most of Spain and Latin America) /aɾmaˈdiʝo/ [aɾ.maˈð̞i.ʝo]
* IPA: (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /aɾmaˈdiʎo/ [aɾ.maˈð̞i.ʎo]
* IPA: (Buenos Aires and environs) /aɾmaˈdiʃo/ [aɾ.maˈð̞i.ʃo]
* IPA: (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /aɾmaˈdiʒo/ [aɾ.maˈð̞i.ʒo]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -iʝo
* Rhymes: -iʝo
* Rhymes: -iʎo
* Rhymes: -iʃo
* Rhymes: -iʒo
* Syllabification: ar‧ma‧di‧llo

### Noun

armadillo m (plural armadillos)
* armadillo
    Synonyms: (Mexican Indian) ayotoste, cachicamo

#### Derived terms

* armadillo andino
* armadillo de nueve bandas

### Further reading

* “armadillo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10